While he suffered from sporadic irrational outbursts, he continued his religious writing, composing theological tracts with an admixture of Christian and Judaic ideas. He consequently began calling himself Louis "David" Riel, prophet of the new world.
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Sporadic irrational outbursts. Hmmm, that sounds familiar. Of course if you yell at your captors "Let me free", I'm sure they would describe it as an "irrational outburst".
radical >adjective 1 relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something. 2 advocating thorough political or social reform; politically extreme. 3 departing from tradition; innovative or progressive. 4 (of surgery) thorough and intended to be completely curative. 5 Mathematics of the root of a number or quantity. 6 of or coming from the root or stem base of a plant. 7 informal, chiefly N. Amer. excellent. >noun 1 an advocate of radical political or social reform. 2 Chemistry a group of atoms behaving as a unit in a number of compounds.
-DERIVATIVES radicalism >noun radicalize (also radicalise) >verb radically >adverb radicalness >noun.
-ORIGIN Latin radicalis, from radix 'root'.
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